That's a LOT of filing to do on a Challenger.

Jace Kahn

General Manager 
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.





> Scale Model Supplies in St. Paul has an American Flyer Challenger in their 
> display case.  Very sweet.  Does filing really work?  What is the 
> back-to-back spacing and how it would negotiate turnouts?
> Ben Trousdale
> 
> --- In [email protected], "scale S only" <scalesonly@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bud and all --
> > 
> > I have been known to use a flat file to reduce flange size, doing my best 
> > to round it off after reducing height.   I recently had to do that for a 
> > pair of Omnicon 2-8-0s when their end driver pairs and center driver pairs 
> > rubbed flanges.   Only the center pairs were reduced!!
> > 
> > Bill Winans   
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, "richgajnak" <rustytraque@> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, I know some of you guys have an aversion to American Flyer stuff. 
> > > But, here's a link to the new Flyer Challenger posed in a scale 
> > > environment.
> > > 
> > > http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/2721001123/m/7482967917
> > > 
> > > Rich G(ajnak)
> > >
> > Rich, Beautiful looking engine! Even I, as an eastern road modeler, would 
> > love one of these if it had scale flanges. Looks so much better than the 
> > 18'high Flyonel Big Boy.
> > Bud Rindfleisch

                                          

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